Reed for weaving wire cloth



fm2@ L'. 6712' ORA/EMS ZIVl/ Ewzfaja `May 15, 1923.

H LINDSAY REED Fon wEAvING wm: cLoTH Fiied April 14 Patented May l5, 1923.

' yoNrrED site as e HAMILTQN LINDSAY, or CLEVELAND, onto, .AssrGNoEzro yTEE'.intensas REED COMPANY, for CLEVELAND, H10, n jcoEPoEATroN'fon DELAWARE; f

` REED Eon WEAVING wrEEcLo'rrr. i.; j i

Application mea April '1-4, 1922, serial rrotsefe. l i, o

T 0 all 'whom t mayl concern eit known that, I, HAiyrinroN'fLrNDszr,

a citizen of the. United States, residing at' Cleveland,v in the county of Cuyahoga yand 1.5 State` of Ohio, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in a Reed for .Wreaving WireCloth, of which the follow-A ing is a full, clear, ande-Xact description,

reference being had .to the accompanying '10 drawings.

1 This inventionrelates Vto reeds Stich as are used in looms, for weaving wire cloth, vand has for one of its objects the provision of an improved reed construction whichtends to lengthen the period of service of a reedu A construction heretofore employed forl making reeds has been to secure the reed teeth, or dents, between binding strips which yextend transve-rsely of the teeth fand' longitudinally of the hatten frame.- These binding strips are usually made of wood,

and are so connected that when the battenstrikes the woven fabric to drive' a shoot wire into position, the stresses incident to the blow are transmitted directly to these strips. Since the teeth are placed edgewise intermediate these strips, the force of the blow tends to drive the vteeth into the wooden strips, thus cutting them` and ma terially shortening the life of the reed.

My invention seeksto overcome this tendency to cut by providing metallic inserts on the batten strips adjacent the edges of the teeth, and at the same time leaving suiiicient material above and below the insert for securely holding the teeth in spaced relation to each other after the reed is as'- sembled.

The means for accomplishing my inven# tion will be hereinafter fully set forth in the following description which pertains to the accompanying drawings, and the essential features will be vsummarized inthe claims.

In t-he drawings, Fig. l is a perspective view of a portion of a loom which carries a reed constructed according to my invention; Fig. 2 is a transverse section on an enlarged scale through the batten frame; and

reed construction.

y l l accordingly Ihave'shownthe frame olf-suc ci `and'between adjacent teethf" vention is still adapted foruse in .existing 1 v looms and is capable of a longeriperiodof- Fig. 3 is a perspective view showing the a, m `mwah a, tetten 11', what fisgaapt,

ed to carry aree'd, indicated .generallyjjat 1., 12. The reedma'y -be held in fpos'iti`on` clamping strips l13,` and 1 4 which are shown as being securednto'thebatten frame 'ligand f as lextending fromy one side vgtothe` other of theloomframegf The reed proper on 'l I .i

15.` which are held fin alignmentjby binding strips 16 extending transversely vthereof along the to-p', and similar strips 17, alo ng relation bythe v'usual tape which yis wound around the binding` stri` TheV binding, ,stripsy 16 and 17 li'aiev-pr'o-- vided on the inner faces thereof with inserts 2O and 21 respectively. These inserts f are preferably metallic strips which arefemg' ,bedded in the wooden binders, so that the exposed face thereof lies in the same plane` as the faces of the binders whichengage -the 1 i dents of the-reed. The arrangementvof the 'binding strips' with relation to the reed per-1 j.

mits the reversal of the reed vwithin they battenframe, thus doubling the period of service of the reed. y n The usual yr'nanner'of attaching the freed to the hatten is illustrated in Fig. 2, where-v in the clamping members l13 yand 1 4 engage the binding strips', ,thus leaving the .space intermediate the binders for movement of the WaTlWWres tor form a shed. For en j abling the vbin'derstoA be clamped tightly against the b-atten frame without damage to the reed, suitable metallic inserts .-22 and '.90

23 are placed on the exterior of the strips,

opposite the inner inserts. A reedconstructed according to my 1nservice therein by means of the metallic` contact between the inserts and the edges of the dents. Furthermore, these particular infr serts may be embedded in existing binding stripswithout necessitating material changes' in the construction thereof, vand' withoutim pairing the character of the'worlrwovenbyf looms employing this type ofreed.y claimzv f i. 1. A reed for a loom comprising in corn--y bination, a pluralityof dents placed side by .l i

side, av non-metallic binding strip extending transversely thereof, and a metallic insert in flo said strip adjacent said dents.

2. Areed for a loom comprising in combination, al plurality of dents placed side by side, vbinding strips extending transversely thereof, and metallic inserts in some of said j'strips adjacent said dents.

`3. Inl a device of the class described, the combination with a plurality of reed dents,

,of non-metallic binding stripsextending on either side thereof, and metallic inserts vembeddedin each of said strips, said inserts eX- .f1 ser tending ysubstantially the entir-elength ofV the inserts-'and adjacent said dents. l f

a device of the class described, the combination with a plurality of reed dents,

, t of Woodenbindingstrips extending on either side therof, and metallic inserts embedded iny eachof said strips `adjacent the dents, lone v-ofthe exposed faces of each insert being flush vvith the adjacent faceof the associated 5. In adeviceoi'" th'efclass described the lcombination with. a plurality of reed dents placed ,side by side, of means for retaining said dents vinspaee'd relation to each other, and metallic `strips adjacent said dents whereby the Working stresses set upin the dents are transmitted to thebatten frame through said strips.

6. In combination, aplurality of reed dents l placed side by side, a pair of binding strips extending transversely vthereof and' along the top, another j pairj of `strips extending transversely thereof and alongr the bottom, i and a metallic bearing plate carried vby each j of said strips and on `that portion thereof adj aeent said dentsf ,7; In a device of the vclass described, the combination with' ak plurality of. reed dents placed side by side, of a pair of non-metallic binders extending along the top of the dents, anotherA pair of bindersextendingV In testimony whereof, Iv hereunto aiX my l signaturel HAMILTON LINDSAY. l 

